Elevating-carrier for grading and ditching machines.



PATENTED MAY 9 1905.

BE 0. RHODES. ELEVATING GARRIER FOR GRADING AND DITGHING MAGHINESH APPLIUATIOH IILED FEB. 10. 180%.

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III M PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

B 0. RHODES. ELEVATING CARRIER FOE GRADING AND DITGHING MACHINES.

APPLIUATIOII' FILED FEB. 10, 1904.

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No. 789,628. Patented May 9, 1905.

ltfiuiirnn brains f BERT O. RHODES, OF BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO NAIVIONAL DRILL AND MANUFAO'ITURlNU COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPO- RATION OF l/VEST VlltGlNlA.

ELEVA'l'lNG-CARWlEFt FOR GRADING AND DITCHING Wl/ tCl-HNES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,628,01atec1 ll/Iay 9, 1905.

Application filed February 10, 1904. $erial No, 192,992.

WWI/011W it f j "OH/067%" and to operate the scraping or cleaning chain Be itknown that l, Bum? O. Rliionns, a eiti or belt in a more effective and desirable way. 5 zen ot the United States, residing at Barber- In theaccompanyingdrawings, Figure l is a ton, in the county of Summitand State of Ohio, longitudinal section ona verti :al central plane haveinvented certain new and useful lmprovethrough the receiving end portion of the elements in Elevating-Oarriers for Grading and rating-carrier involving the principles of my Ditching Machines, of which the following is invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of such 55 a specification. receiving end portion of the elevating-carrier My invention relates to elevating-carriers with the belt broken a ay. Fig. 3 is a view to for grading and ditching machines in which similar to Fig. 1, showing a slight change in the elevatingcarrier involves an endless belt the driving connection for the endless chain passing about a number of belt-rolls upon a or belt. Fig. 4: is a top plan view of Fig. 3 6O suitable frame, the endless carrier being arwith the carrier-belt broken away. ranged to receive the soil from the plow, as The elevating-carrier frame A can be con illustrated, for example, in Letters Patent structedsubstantially as in said patentto (fray No. 743,487 to Thomas J. Gray, November or in any other known or approved manner, 10, 1903. In these machines it is very comand, as usual, it is provided with belt-rolls for men for soil loosened up by the plow to find the endless carrier-belt B. its way in between the upper and lower leaves O indicates a scraper which serves to scrape of the carrier-belt, and when such soil is sticky the soil from the usual belt-roll D at the reit is carried by the belt to the roll at the receiving end of the elevating-carrier, and E inceiving end of the carrier, whereit will adhere dicates a transversely-arranged pan or shelf 7 to such belt-roll. As illustrated in said patsupported upon the frame of the elevatingent, the soil which thus adheres to the beltcarrier and arranged to receive the loose soil 5 roll at the receiving end of the elevating-carfrom the scraper (l.

rier is removed from such belt roll by a 1 indicates an upright scraperplate arscraper, whichdirectstl'ie SClLpOCl-OffSOll upon ranged back of the scraper O and convenwhat is commonly known as a pen or iently formed by an angle-plate secured upon shelf, the soil thus deposited upon the shelf the shelf E.

3 being in said patent removed by an endless In Figs. 1 and 2 the endless cleaner chain transversely-arranged chain having its lower or belt G, having a suitable number of proleaf arranged to sag below the elevating-carjecting scrapers or wipers 1, is arranged to rier, so that its scraper-teeth will engage the pass about sprockets 2, which are respectively ground, and thereby cause the chain to be opat opposite sides of the main frame and con- 3 5 erated duringthe advancementof the machine. veniently arranged upon or over the shelf E.

I find, however, that in practice the opera- A chain or belt Gr also passes about and is tions of such scraping-chain are not reliable, driven by a sprocket 3, arranged below and owing to the variations in the ground-sorface, upon the axle of a worm-wheel H, which in a further disadvantage being that it is somcturn engages with and is driven by a worm a 4- times desirable to vary the height of the eleon one of the idler belt-rolls l, which serves vating-carrier, and in such case it is not practo support the upper leaf of the elevatingtical to correspondingly adjust the scraping carrier belt ata point back of the belt-roll l). or cleanii'igchain. A furtherdisadvantage is During operation, therefore, the idler-roll I that when the chain thus engages in the ground is driven by frictional contact with the belt 45 it is liable to take up an objectionable quan- B, and when thus operated it serves to drive tity of soil. the cleanenbelt G. \Vith this arrangement Objects ofinyinvention are to entirely overof cleaner-belt its wipers or scrapers 1 can come said defects and objectionable features and do project from the said belt G in aplane parallel or substantially parallel with the shelf E, so that the leaf of the belt G which is adjacent to the scraper C and which traverses the shelf E in a right line between the sprockets 2 will have its wipers 1 arranged to scrape the top surface of the shelf E, as in Figs. 1 and 2, and thereby effectively remove all loose soil therefrom. As a preferred arrangement the scraper F is arranged to extend between the two leaves 5 and 6 of the cleaner-belt G, the leaf 5 of such cleaner-belt being with such arrangement just forward of and parallel with the scraper F, so that the wipers 1 on the belt-leaf 5 will project from such belt-leaf forwardly toward the scraper G. In this way the scraper F, the scaper C, and the intervening portion of the shelf E combine to form a trough having a flat bottom and adapted to receive leaf 5 of the cleaner-belt G, which as arranged causes its wipers to extend substantially from side to side of the trough and to traverse the bottom with which said trough is provided.

l Vhile the idler-roll I may revolve at a rate of speed commensurate with the travel of the endless carrier-belt B,the travel of the cleaner- .belt G will not be so rapid, by reason of its worm-gear connection with the roll I, thereby greatly saving in wear and tear.

ln Figs. 3 and etthc cleaner-belt is provided with wipers 1 and trained about the sprockets 2; but in place of driving it from the roll I it is operated by one of the sprockets 2, which is secured upon or made suitably rigid with the axle of a worm-wheel H, arranged to engage a worm 7 upon the roll I) at the receiving end of the elevating-carrier. Vith this arrangement the cleaner-belt G is suitably shortened so that its two leaves will be parallel with and respectively at opposite sides of the scraper F, it being observed that the belt-leaf 5 traverses the forward portion of the shelf E and that the wipers thereon traverse a trough substantially as herein before described in connection with preceding figures. In said Patent No. 743A87 the teeth on the wiper-belt are necessarily in a plane perpendicular, or substantially so, to the plane of the shelf or pan. In my improvement, however, the teeth or wipers 1 are parallel or substantially parallel with the plane of the pan or shelf E, and therefore more effectively operate as means for carrying off the loose soil.

In both of the arrangements herein shown the wiper-belt G is between the upper and lower leaves of the endless carrier-belt B, and therefore out of the way and protected.

It will also be observed that in Fig. 1 the teeth or wipers l on the cleaner-belt leaf 5 are quite close to the roll D and that they will effectively take loose soil from said roll.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- 1. In an elevating-carrier for grading and ditching machines, an endless elevating-carrier belt and belt-rolls therefor; and a cleaning device constructed with an endless cleaning-belt arranged between the upper and lower leaves of the elevating-carrier belt, and powertransmitting connection between one of the rolls for the elevating-carrier belt and the cleaning-belt.

2. In an elevating-carrier for grading and ditching machines, an endless elevating-carrier belt and belt-rolls therefor; and a cleaning device constructed with an endless cleaning-belt arranged between the upper and lower leaves of the elevating-carrier belt, and powertransmitting connection arranged between one of the rolls for the elevating-carrier belt and the cleaning-belt and involving a worm-gear.

3. ln an elevating-carrier for grading and ditching machines constructed with an end less elevating-carrier belt and belt-rolls therefor; a scraper for removing soil from one of the belt-rolls; a shelf arranged to receive the soil scraped from said roll; an endless cleanerbelt arranged with its two leaves between the upper and lower leaves of the elevating-carrier belt and supported to traverse the bed and having projecting wipers which project laterally therefrom and sweep the bed from side to side of the elevating-carrier during the travel of the cleaner-belt; and driving means for operating the cleaner-belt.

4C. In an elevating-carrier for grading and ditching machines, an endless elevating-carrier belt; a belt-roll for said belt at the receivingend of the elevating-carrier; a scraper for removingsoil from such belt-roll; a shelf arranged to receive soil thus scraped from the belt-roll; a scraper F rising from the shelf toward the upper leaf of the elevating-carrier belt; an endless cleaner-belt having wipers and supported for travel with one leaf between the two scrapers and the other leaf back of the scraper F; and means for operating the cleaner-belt; the wipers on the cleanerbelt being arranged to sweep the shelf between the two scrapers during the travel of such belt.

BERT O. RHODES. lVitnesses:

S. E. FREEMAN, O. l). Evnmuno. 

